| Stephen Gran on 31 Aug 2004 17:47:02 -0000 |
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:53:00PM -0400, Art Alexion said: > I am adding a new (additional) hard drive. My current HD has a simple > ext3 partitioning: (/, /boot, & /swap). I want to move /home to the new > drive as well as installing a new distro. > > Can I just do a > > mkdir /newhome Better might be: mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt mv /home/* /mnt umount /mnt mount /dev/hdc1 /home (for whatever partition) > Or is there something I should be doing with dd? Only if the partitions are exactly the same size, otherwise you lose some extra space. > Or should I install the new distro to the new HD and then just move the > existing /home files to /home on the new distro? I am assuming no major > conflict in sharing home among the two distros as long as it is in its > own partition. Just keep uid -> username mappings intact, otherwise strange things can happen. > I feel like I am missing something critical. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A large number of installed systems | | steve@lobefin.net | work by fiat. That is, they work by | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | being declared to work. -- Anatol | | | Holt | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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